An Gorta Mór Traditional Cache
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A traditional cache located in the grounds of Swinford Hospital. The cache is easily accessed by a short walk to the steps leading up to the Famine Plot. The cache is a small container with log sheet, pencil, parer and a toy soldier. There is a little room for trade.
To get to the cache, park in the hospital car park and follow signs for “Famine Plot”.
Your GPS should lead you straight to it.
The remains and site of the Swinford Workhouse should be of interest to visitors to the area. The front portion of the workhouse is now a hospital and is typical of all workhouses built at the time.
One of the best preserved mass Famine Graves can be seen at the back of Swinford Hospital, where 564 inmates were buried "without coffin, without sermon, without anything which denotes respect for the dead".
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(Decrypt)
Cvavat va gur pbeare.